button-down English

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What does button-down mean?

button-down

— adjective (= buttoned-down) unimaginatively conventional a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business — Newsweek

— adjective of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons Brooks Brothers button-down shirts

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What other words have the same or similar meaning as button-down?

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conservative

buttoned-down

traditionalist

stationary

mossy

moss-grown

buttony

button-down shirt